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Name of crisps

festershinetopfestershinetop
edited December 2005 in Chit chat
I remeber when i was a kid in the 80s there were these crisps which were shaped like little pigs and were hollow. There was only one flavour which was bacon i think. Does anyone know what they were called and if they still sell them
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  • WalrusWalrus
    edited December 2005
    They sound like piglets. Don't think the flavour was bacon. Think it was something a tad stranger but which was actualy nothing special.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited December 2005
    ive just tried some branston pickle flavour chedders

    not very nice, didnt even eat half a bag
    :(
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  • The StargliderThe Starglider
    edited December 2005
    They were indeed Piglets. What I miss though were Wickers.
  • RefrenzRefrenz
    edited December 2005
    and I miss 3 types of crisps which were available when I was younger, called Fangs, Bats, Bones.
  • CozCoz
    edited December 2005
    there were corn(ish) snacks called 'smax' which were awsome, piglets as discussed above were bacon as i remember
  • WalrusWalrus
    edited December 2005
    I really cant remember the flavour which is strange, because bacon flavour is normally pretty strong. Like I remember football crazies being bacon flavour. All I remember about piglets is that they were hollow.
  • RefrenzRefrenz
    edited December 2005
    On 2005-12-11 02:28, Coz wrote:
    there were corn(ish) snacks called 'smax' which were awsome, piglets as discussed above were bacon as i remember

    They were more biscuity than corn snack based, the same as those 'Fish n chips' snacks which tasted of neither fish nor chips, but were still delicious.
  • muddywhomuddywho
    edited December 2005
    still do fish 'n' chips had em a couple of months back :), I remember piglets (very detailed for what they were) and snax which were vile and tasted like burnt clothes...
  • festershinetopfestershinetop
    edited December 2005
    do they still make roysters
  • muddywhomuddywho
    edited December 2005
    Think so, did up until very recently if they don't now... the shop at work is selling Texan bars again - had a double take and got one as I hadn't seen them in years and years
  • udgoverloadudgoverload
    edited December 2005
    When I was very young, they test marketed some crisps in the north of england and I was lucky enough to get a packet.

    They were CHOCOLATE flavour.

    It wasn't actually that bad, but that was probably because it didn't taste very chocolatey, it was more like a very very bland spice added to a normal crisp.

    Sank without trace of course, no idea what they were called or if they were ever sold properly.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited December 2005
    I remember Hedgehog flavored crisps back in the 80s.
  • BruceNortonBruceNorton
    edited December 2005
    And Arthur Scargill flavour crisp by the same manufacturer as good old hedgehog crisps.

    But what about Farmer Browns crisps. I can remember they had a TV advert which started off with

    Farmer Brown has got a crunchy snack there
    OOH ARRR
  • RefrenzRefrenz
    edited December 2005
    On 2005-12-16 19:57, BruceNorton wrote:
    And Arthur Scargill flavour crisp by the same manufacturer as good old hedgehog crisps.

    But what about Farmer Browns crisps. I can remember they had a TV advert which started off with

    Farmer Brown has got a crunchy snack there
    OOH ARRR

    Ooo, Farmer Brown's crisps were lovely. I believe the crisps were shaped like different farm animals and IIRC the next line of the song went something like this ...

    "with losts of lovely shapes for me and you"
  • DEATHDEATH
    edited December 2005
    Texan bars! Gimmie!

    Hold on thar Bold Eagle, you wouldn't fire a man til he's finished his Texan bar, would you?

    I remember the TV advert!!

    Reminds me of the Jet man cartoon in Crash - towards the end where his accent changed to sound a bit like John Wayne.....

    Anybody remember Aztec bars, mint cracknel? Pyramint?
    Oh bugger!<br>
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited December 2005
    I was looking through a load of old 1980's TV commercials I'd downloaded (sad I know), when there was an advert for Cadbury's WISPA...


    ...which got me thinking... I've not seen or bought a Wispa bar in ages..

    Have they secretly disappeared?
  • harry potterharry potter
    edited December 2005
    what about spangles? we had an argument bout them a while back everyone reckons they were great, they were bloody mingin hence there extinction...
  • Dave_CDave_C
    edited December 2005
    On 2005-12-17 16:52, harry potter wrote:
    what about spangles? we had an argument bout them a while back everyone reckons they were great, they were bloody mingin hence there extinction...

    Depends which ones you are talking about. The fruit ones were okay, but the 'Olde English' ones were absolutely rank!
  • muddywhomuddywho
    edited December 2005
    On 2005-12-16 20:57, chaosmongers wrote:
    I was looking through a load of old 1980's TV commercials I'd downloaded (sad I know), when there was an advert for Cadbury's WISPA...


    ...which got me thinking... I've not seen or bought a Wispa bar in ages..

    Have they secretly disappeared?

    Yes and No.... They don't do Wispa's as such but Cadbury had an overhaul and gave everything dairymilk branding so they substitute for a wispa is a dairymilk bubbly, not tried one so not sure if they are the same.
  • alanspecalanspec
    edited December 2005
    The swimming pool near me(when I was younger) used to have vending machines with spicy tomato puffed corn crisps called Jaws - they were the most loaded with flavour things ever. Mmmmmm.
    ASpec.
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  • DEATHDEATH
    edited December 2005
    On 2005-12-17 21:15, muddywho wrote:

    Yes and No.... They don't do Wispa's as such but Cadbury had an overhaul and gave everything dairymilk branding so they substitute for a wispa is a dairymilk bubbly, not tried one so not sure if they are the same.

    No, it's more like Aero - the bubbles are much coarser than a wispa - which reminds me of a joke!

    George Michael has just come out of hospital after being in for a few days. Apparently, doctors had to remove several chocolate bars from his rectum. Seems like he was careless with his wispa :) Oldie but a goodie!


    Oh bugger!<br>
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited December 2005
    hoho that's a good one.

    Reminds me of a joke of the early 1990's...

    What have Kenny Everett and British Telecom got in common?

    They've both been fucked by Mercury.



    COMPLETELY unfunny, and doesn't make any sense any more. But I thought i'd mention it, to increase my total number of posts.




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